Those who desire a careful but cluircbly estimate of archbishop Parker must consult the Life written by the indcfatigalde Strype (Oxf. 1711), and Hook, Lives of the Archbishops. See also Soames, Hist, of the Ref. Ch. of Enyland, iv, 579 sq. ; Strj-pe, Annals, i, 262 sq. ; Buniet, Hist, of the Ref. iii, 387 sq. ; Soames, Eliz- abethan Hist. ])! 15 sq., 174 sq., 201-218; Hallam, Con- stit. Hist, (f Ei>(/lamL i, 252 sq., et al. ; Cunningham, Reformers ; Neal, Hist, of the Ihiritans, i, 292, et al., csp. p. 299; Hardwick, Ch. Hist. {Refoi-viation), p. 22 sq. ; Middleton, Eranyd. Bioyr. ii, 171 sq. ; Skeats, Hist, of ike Eree Churches of Enyland, p. 14 sq. ; Butler, Ec- cles. Hist, ii, 449 sq. ; IMarsden, Ch. Hist. ; Collier, Eccles. Hist, ii, 542-549 ; Palmer, Ch. Hist, i, 450 ; Hume, Hist, of Enyland, iv, 201 sq. ; Green, Short Hist, of the Eny- lish People, \i. 383 sq., 464 sq. ; Froudc, Hist, of England (see Index in vol. xii); and especially Gibbon's esti- mate in his /'(isthinmms Works, iii, 5G6. (J. H. W.)
Parker, Nathan, D.D., a Unitarian minister of the Congregational body, was born at Heading, Mass., June 5, 1782, and was educated .at Harvard LTniversity, class of 1803. After graduation Parker spent one year in teaching at Worcester, ^lass. : then studied theolog\' ; in 1805 was appointed tutor in Powdoin College, Me. ; in 1808 he was settled as pastor of a Congregational Church in Portsmouth, and there ministered until his death, Nov. 8, 1833, a little while after Andrew P. Peabody had been ordained his colleague. When the division of the Congregational body in New England into two parties was recognised, Parker took part as a professed Unitarian. Henry Ware, Jr., published a volume of Parker's Se7mons, with a memoir (1835). See also
Ware, Bioyraphical Sketches of Unitarian Ministeis, ii, 25; Sprague, Annuls of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 411.
Parker, Robert (1), a Puritan divine of consider- able learning and reading, was educated at Benet Col- lege, Cambridge, and after graduation (1583) was made a fellow thereof. He was finally ]iresented to the bene- fice of Wilton, in Wiltshire. In 1607 he was obliged to quit the countrj-, and he found refuge in Holland, be- cause he had dared to publish A discourse ayidnst Symbolizinywith Antichrist in Ceremonies, Parker died in 1614. After his death was published Be Poliiica Ecclesiasiica Christi et Hierarchica opposifa, libri ti'es, in quibus tarn verce disciplincB fundamenta, quam omnes fere de eadem controversiee, summo cum judicio et doc- trina methodice pertractantur (Frankf. 1616, 4to) : — A Discourse concerniny the Puritans (1641, 4to) : — The Mystery of the Vials opened in the \6th Chapter of Reve- lation (1651, 4to) : — Exposition of the Fourth Vial (1654, 4 to). See Darling, Cyclop. Biblioy. s. v.; Neal, Hist, of the Puritans.
Parker, Robert (2), a pioneer minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Fishing Creek, Luzerne County, Pa., March 30, 1792 ; was converted at the age of eleven years, and joined the Methodist Church. He entered the Genesee Conference in 1820, and continued a member thereof until his death, being forty-seven years in faithful, active work, and seven years superannuated. The Genesee Conference at the time above mentioned included Western and portions of Central and Northern New York, part of Pennsyl- vania, the whole of L'pper Canada, and a part of Mich- igan. His first charge was Canisteo Circuit, and in- cluded Dansville and Painted Post. His last was Rog- ersville, which was included in his tirst circuit. His earlier circuits required three hundred miles' travel, which occupied six weeks' time. Riding from morn- ing till evening twilight through thick forests marked only by Indian trails, swimming rivers, climbing hills and mountains, and preaching nightly m log hut or school-house or barn, or out of doors, summer and win- ter, this veteran did an amount of labor for his Master that few modern preachers conceive of. His life was one of remarkable purity and earnestness, he being al- ways willing to work wherever there was work to do. For the last two years of his life he was almost entirely bereft of reason by a paralytic stroke. Yet he never lost bis hold on the higher life, but prayed as intelligi- bly and eloquently, and sang the old familiar hymns as sweetly, as when in the vigor of manhood. He died in Sparta, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1874. See Minutes of A nnual Con- ferences M. E. Ch. p. 875 ; Conable, Hist. Genercd Conf. ch. ii, § 1 ; Boehm. Autobioyirqjhy. (J. H.W.)
Parker, Samuel, D.I). (1), a prelate of the Eng- lish Church, was born at Northampton in September, 1640. He was of Puritan extraction, and was marked by certain Puritan notions, when, as a joung man. he entered Wadham College, Oxford. He studied later at Trinity College. He was there brought in contact with persons of a very different turn of mind, particularly with Dr. Ralph Bath urst, who is said by the writers of his /.//(' to have been chiefly instrumental in drawing him away from the Puritans. Parker, at the Restoration, became a zealous advocate for episcojjacy. He had an active pen, which he employed about the time of the Restora- tion, and for a few succeeding years, in repeated attacks on the Puritan, or, as it was then become, the Non- conforming party. The controversy' is almost forgot- ten, and we think it needless to recount the titles of his tracts. One of his writings, A L)iscou7-se in ]'indi- cation of Bishop Bramhall (Lond. 1670), called forth the "Rehearsal Transpose<l" of Andrew Marvell, in which Parker was very severely handled, and to wliich he replied in A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transposed (Lond. 1673) ; but Marvell's wit was too much for him, and in everything lie subsequently wrote he showed how keenly he felt the castigation. He was favored and promoted in the Church. In 1667 he was made